Georgia Bulldogs 33, Vanderbilt Commodores 28: I Ain't Afraid of No Goat

Subject-verb agreement issue spotted; it should’ve been “reactions,” not “reaction.” My bad; it was a late night, a long drive, and an early wake-up call.

Thanks again to everyone who attended the Goat Roast. I had a great time.

I’m the guy who said Butler’s punt couldn’t be blocked. Yep, I was that guy. I don’t know why I said it – perhaps because it had never happened before last night, maybe I needed to reassure myself about our VERY Special Teams or the outcome of the game in general.

I’m just glad Podunk didn’t have to ban me…..

At least now I know who to blame for the blocked punt. Thou shalt not tempt the football karma gods.:)

I bet Franklin thinks twice before going out there and trying to pull a stunt like that against us again.

If I ever need a lawyer (heaven forbid), I know who I’m gonna call. I was on the fence about Grantham’s behavior, but as usual after reading your take I’m sold. My only issue that remains is, he still needs to consider that his behavior could have been the catalyst to a huge brawl. Which, in turn, could have resulted in multiple suspensions. And IMO destroyed the season. Although I realize that it didn’t play out that way and we’ve nothing to gain worrying about the what ifs. Hopefully it doesn’t turn out to be a bad deal and forever be in the mind if James Franklin…Haha.

At the beginning of the game, when I saw the Vandy students in the front row who’d painted their chests to spell “Inbred Dogs” or something, all I wanted was to hang 50 on ‘em. If not for field goal and punt shenanigans, we might’ve done just that, but alas. And then with the chop blocks, James Franklin’s aggressive crap, whatever happened to Rambo on the last play (unless it was just cramps or something), I don’t mind if the Commies get smoked in every venture for the next decade.

According to Andy Staples twitter.

- AM had a better game but he is still off. His deep ball pass is still off and he missed a few easy short ones. I am just glad it got better. Maybe his confidence will improve. Blair Walsh was Mr go to until this year, and CMR needs to pick a number, call it 40 yards, where if isn’t shorter than that we punt or go for it. BW doesnt need to leave our opponents with that much yardage anymore. I appreciate CMR giving him chances, but no more long ones.

- I told you if it didnt go well, it was my fault for being positive. I wanted to be in a good mood about a game and win one clean. Their O wasnt good, our D was very good, it seemed we would do well. However, no one saw what last night happened coming. I will be very worried about every game from here on out. )

- CT went absent in the second half and 4th Quarter. Good old Coach Bobo running worthless plays with RS. I wont go on to much about this one, but the green note book was seen repeatedly in this game, we even opened up the game with it, and we all know it now. Everyone sees it. CMR will not remove CMB during the season, but how he handles it off season, I will be very interested in. This “use RS for a 3 and out” and throwing the deep ball on 3rd and 5 needs to stop.

- I also posted RAMBO INT! DAWGS WIN! too early. I should have known better than to think our O can get one first down at the end of the game. GNB and finish the drill were none existent, again, we we could have closed. Maybe the blocked punt will put the clue bird in the coaches and players head it aint over until its over. Our O needs to learn to get 1 or 2 first downs at the end of a game, whatever the problem is.

- Good on Marlon Brown – hope this helps his confidence. We need two deep threat guys along with Bennet’s medium range reliability. This will help stretch Ds and help the run. T King is doing better as well.

- People wanted a fired up Coach, and we got one. Vandy’s coach was stupid to come out to midfield running his mouth and CTG was just returning the favor. I thought I went off about the officiated enough last week – but maybe I need to do more of it and mail it to our AD. The lack of calls on illegal blocks led to a lot of this. There was, again, too much “PWG” (playing while Georgia) and eventually it’s going to build up and kids will be kids. CMR was all up in the refs ear in this game. We even got an D offsides call with no encroachment, just moving the D around, ridiculous. We got called for a PF for a face slap when the Vandy player threw a few slaps himself; the ref saw the entire thing and only flagged UGA. Vandy played dirty, talked trash and the refs supported it and then Vandy’s coach goes out to midfield jawing and pointing this is all a formula for a mid field fight. I support CTG for being PO’d that Vandy couldn’t walk out and shake hands appropriately. And I salute the kids after the fight that shook hands and acted better. All of this can be used for teaching points and team meeting discussions. UGA has got to learn they are “PWG” and shut our mouths and fill your role.

- Podunkdawg is awesome. She has raised money for a child, put two socials together, got us the T Shirts and always touches base to monitor the blog. Glad the Goat Roast was fun and I missed being there.

- We beat Vandy at Vandy at night in a game we overlook every few years. And this year’s Vandy is NOT last year’s Vandy. It’s a W. I enjoy doing the Xs and Os but our Special Teams are so horrible I don’t think any good analysis can be done until our STs are fixed. They are hurting us on both sides of the ball. I hope our team has the take away that they can win a scrappy, tough game and learns nothing is a given and goes to Jacksonville with the attitude they must play hard, shut their mouths, don’t let the “PWG” get them down and plays hard for 60 minutes. Our STs need to stop hurting us so badly so we can fix the things on Xs and Os that we need to fix.

- Final points on our D. I said on the podcast our weakness on D was containment. We had a lot of containment issues. We over pursued. And we need our full LB corps back. Oh, and I did get my wish of multiple INTs. Our DBs are so much more improved, physical, and we are very close, again, to having 5 or 6 INTs.

- Final points on O: We need to score TDs in the red zone. We stall at around the 30 to 20 yard line. Play calling, execution, whatever. Fix it CMR and CMB.

- Thanks to all for a lively game thread and all the knew folks. Cherokee’s Grip, Ed Wilson and a few others had me laughing so hard while I watched disaster on tv. I am glad most folks went with the sarcasm and laughter when we had disaster in the game (for the most part). One secret: After the blocked punt at the end, I thought I was about to post a Dawgs lose post game rant and I was preparing for a firestorm. I am glad that didnt happen.

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But we just cracked the AP poll at #24.

While don’t expect Kyle to rank us until after the Florida game, for obvious reasons, it’s good to see our team starting to get back into the national picture.

… what’s the new masthead mean? The “KTMF” part is pretty self-explanatory… but how about the rest?

UGA’s first four possessions: missed field goal (50 yards), punt (three and out), field goal (53 yards), missed field goal (42 yards). Twice the Dogs failed to capitalize on Vandy turnovers. Their first touchdown came only after a botched Commodores punt.

CMR cannot rely on the long FG this year IMO. And the GNB was out in force in the 1st Q.

I dont believe Shultz, Towers or Bill King actually watch football games. They bemoaned UGA’s penalities and lack of discipline without any mention to the horrible officiating and Vandy’s continual holds and cut blocks. They are right about out STs being horrible.

And the message boards. 90% of those people dont know a single thing about football. I wish the AJC would get at least one guy that likes UGA and knows football on the staff for some counter point and smart reporting. Kyle’s analysis is better than anything those guys wrote, and most of what they wrote were some stats and block quotes.

What I said was that if you’re someone who believes in distractions being a major factor — and, with a few exceptions, I’m not — it’s not unreasonable to ask the question. If you don’t think this is going to at least a bit of a distraction, that strikes me as a bit bizarre

Apparently they think UGA played the dirtier game. The refs actually hurt them more.
They also feel they played well (as for Rogers, I give them that). And should have won.
They think they just needed to catch the ball more – no mention our DBs owned them.
They now think CMR is classless. Which shows they didnt watch or read his post game reviews.

The concept UGA blew STs to heck to give them many more chances than they should have had doesnt even exist. No discussion of how badly UGA blew it in the red zone. No mention of multiple missed FGs that would have made it more than a two score game. geez.

I hoped to kill someone this year. I will now except winning every game as ugly as it gets, as long as we win.